The Film Index (Jul-Dec 1910)

U THE FILM INDEX 3E MANUFACTURERS' BULLETINS Advance Descriptions of Licensed Subjects 3E =ii „,n -ii ir= 3E 3E 3E 3E 3E CALENDAR OF THE WEEK'S LICENSED RELEASES MONDAY, NOV. 28, 1910—4 REELS BIOGRAPH — A Plain Song, dramatic, 997. LUBIN — Sunshine and Shadows, dramatic, 990. PATHE — The Border Tale, dramatic, 679. A Freak, acrobatic, 385. SELIG — The Queen of Hearts, romantic drama, 1,000. TUESDAY, NOV. 29, 1910—4 REELS EDISON — The Great Love, dramatic, 1,000. ESSANAY — The Tie that Binds, dramatic, 963. GAUMONT (Kleine) — The Flat Next Door, comedy, 722. Tarscon on the Rhone, travelogue, 213. VITAGRAPH — A Woman's Love, dramatic. 1,000. WEDNESDAY, NOV. 30, 1910—4 REELS EDISON — Arms and the Woman, dramatic, 975. KALEM — The Touch of a Child's Hand, dramatic, 870. PATHE — Who Is Nellie?, comedy, 650. Finland — Falls of Imatra, colored scenic, 344. URBAN (Kleine) — A Trip Through Ceylon, travelogue, 319. The Return of Midnight, dramatic, 634. THURSDAY, DEC. 1, 1910—4 REELS BIOGRAPH — Effecting a Cure, comedy, 997. LUB8IN — Spoony Sam, comedy, 990. MulLIES — Pals, Western drama, 950. SELIG — The Stepmother, dramatic, 1,000. FRIDAY, DEC. 2, 1910-4 REELS EDISON — The Cowpuncher's Glove, Western drama, 945. KALEM — Elder Alden's Indian Bride, Indian drama, 945. PATHE — The Tale the Mirror Told, dramatic, 646. What a Dinner, comedy, 314 VITAGRAPH — Jack Fat and Jim Lean, comedy. 951. SATURDAY, NOV. 3, 1910—4 REELS ESSANAY — "Circle C" Ranch Wedding Present, dramatic, 1,000. GAUMONT (Kleine) — Lured by a Phantom, dramatic, 712. Nancy's Wedding Trip, comedy, 273. PATHE — The Maid of Niagara, Indian drama, 995. VITAGRAPH — The Preacher's Wife, dramatic. 1001. BIOGRAPH CO. "A PLAIN SONG."— "Love, thy father and thy mother." Adhere strictly to this injunction and the way will be clear.; In time of temptation or of threatening evil, the thought of our parents will lead us from the path of error. So many are the snares and pitfalls laid in the way of youth that it is only through this agency that an escape is made. This Biograph subject is a most lucid illustration of this problem. (Edith is a salesgirl in a department store and toils arduously to eke the lives of her decrepit mother and blind father. Quasi-poverty is their condition, as Edith's meager pittance is all there is to depend on for the existence. Sadly she compares her ownloneliness with the condition of her storemates, as she views them passing by with their sweethearts, light-hearted and happy. Hence it is small wonder that she feels highly flattered and pleased at the attentions of a traveling repertoire manager who enters the store advertising his show, and presents Edith with two complimentary tickets for that evening's performance. The next day the manager appears again at the store and invites her to take a stroll with him. This is the first attention the poor girl has ever experienced, and when the manager tries to persuade her to go away with him it is a supreme struggle with inclination that prevents her leaving her old folks. The manager leaves her with ill-concealed displeasure and the next time he visits the store he tries to win her through jealousy by flirting with one of the other girls. This has the effect and she yields to the great temptation of meeting him after store hours. With renewed endeavor he persuades her and she at last consents to go away with him, leaving a letter for her parents to the effect that she is tired of the drudgery, and longing for pleasure has gone away. Arriving at the railroad station, where she is to meet her tempter, she sees a party of old folks on their way to the almshouse. One of them is sightless and a voice from the soul speaks to her. "Remember thy father and thy mother." And she does remember, seeing them most vividly in her mind's eye. This thought so impels that she at last realizes that she is playing with fire, and turning on her heel, runs back home to find that the letter she had written is gone from the table where she left it. However, her fears are allayed when she finds the letter in possession of her blind father who, of course, cannot read it. Taking it and tearing it to bits, she folds her dear old papa in her arms as her mother enters to share in the embrace. Her eyes opened to the falseness of the world, she is now more than ever determined to perform her sacrificial duty of caring for the old folks. the matinee, so there promises to be a warm luncheon that afternoon at the Wilkins' domicile. Two o'clock arrives, and with it the luncheon party. Wifey meets the "other woman" with pretended injured dignity. Well, the result is that Wilkins is thoroughly in earnest when he exclaims: "Never Again."! GAUMONT, (George Kleine.) "THE FLAT NEXT DOOR."— At a family hotel the room of Mr. Young Man and Old Boy are separated by the apartment of a young and rich widow, who is fortunate enough to be loved by both. Mr. Young Man with youthful impetuosity is the first to make a declaration of love and is accepted. Mr. Old Boy, who is now treated coldly when he presents himself, is so grieved that he decides to commit suicide. After having found the barrel of a revolver too cold to bring about a really pleasant death he hits upon the idea of hanging himself and immediately lays plans for his "taking off." When the crucial moment arrives he finds inventive genius is indeed powerless against the pranks of fate, for when he makes the drop which was to prove fatal the hangsman's rope severs and the force of his fall carries him through the floor cf his room into the widow's drawing room. It happens that at the same time two robbers are in the room and the sight of Mr. Old Boy entering through the ceiling so fairly frightens them that they make a rapid exit. Mr. Young Man who was in the drawing room when the robbers enter, became so frightened that he fled leaving the widow to the tender mercies of the rogues. The lady now pays her obligations to Mr. Old Boy by rejecting the young man and taking her rescuer in his stead. "EFFECTING A CURE."— Wifey, if hubby goes out to the club and hits up the "foolish water" more often than is concurrent with your views, don't waste energy in curtain lectures or upset domesticity by "going home to mamma," but wait and scheme, and there is sure to come a chance when you can either scare him into absolute corrigibility, or make him feel like thirty cents in Mexican money. This Biograph subject will afford many a wife an opportunity to profit by its lesson. Mrs. Wilkins and her mother leave home to spend the night with friends, and will return some time next day. Wilkins ejaculates the time-honcred "Hurrah! Hurrah!" for he is afforded an opportunity of going to the club, indulging freely, and returning home at any old time with possibly a heavy head, but a fearless heart, as there will be no feminine voice calling into the outer darkness: "So there you are, you drunken brute." No need to climb stairs shoeless; no danger of bumping against furniture in black dark r.oms. No, his entrance shall be made in a blaze of light. Well, all transpired as he anticipated. After the session at the club, during which ardent devoirs were paid to Great King Gambrinus, Wilkins is escorted home by a cabby. Sinking into a Morris chair, he falls ti sleep in a jiffy. In this condition wifey and mother find him. Do they cry out and attempt to arouse him. Not much. Wifey and Mamma are wise ones, so with the aid of the friends cf hubby, they devise a plan to cure him of his drinking. To this end they invent "the other woman," pressing into service a lady friend whr writes a note to Wilkins accepting an offer of marriage which she pretends he made her while in his cups. Of course, he is in no condition to remember where he was or what he did the night before. In truth, he wasn't outside his club. The lady also accepts an invitation she pretends he extended to take luncheon with him at two o'clock at his house. The reception of this note affects him like a dynamite bomb. Rushing to the club he asks his chums, who are of course in on the scheme: "Did I?" They reply: "You certainly did." Even the girl, whom he also seeks out, keeps up her end of the trick and expresses her unalterable intenticn of coming to luncheon. Rushing back to the club he exclaims: "Good Heavens! I must get my wife out by two o'clock." A friend offers him two tickets for the matinee. "Ah, the very thing." He breathes easier when wifey and mother consent to go, but, curse the luck, just as they are about to get ready, in come two visiting friends. "Great Scott! I must have two more." These are procured after a mad race to and from the club. All the while the hands of the clock are pushing tantalizingly toward two P. M. The worst comes when the visitors decline to attend "TARASCON ON THE RHONE."— A travelogue given to the motion pictutre public with the idea of making them familiar with a new city in the southern part of France. Tarascon is situated on the left bank of the Rhone opposite the town of Beaucaire and connected to it by a suspension and railway bridge. The city of Tarascon is about one hundred and fifty miles south of Lyons and is of interest to the traveler particularly for its several old gothic cathedrals, many ruined castles and the tombs of St. Martha and Louis II., King of Provence. We are first shown the bridge spanning the Rhone between the cities of Tarascons and Beaucaire, after which we are taken on a short trip up the river to the old castle which was begun by Count Louis II. in the Fourteenth Century, and finished by King Rene of Anjoe in the Fifteenth Century. The old turret stair and chapel entrance are charm T i t, i.W0 ri ' -$■ s^fe-aPa :|gv jH y *£v*r9 '■^^H hmC&BSh ■ iiS^MBgK^m^M^Kii ing examples of Fifteenth Century architecture. The castle is now used as p. prison and it is but a few mcments walk from this famous old building to the quaint market street and town hall which we next visit. After enjoying the various activities of the natives at this place of barter we are next shown the statue in memory cf the town's deliverance from a dragon, La Tarasque, a legendary monster which threatened the town in the early part of the Fourteenth Century. Our little journey is shortly brought to a close by a little tour "to -the Villa Tartarn and the castle cf Beaucaire which we view by the rays of the setting sun. "LURED BY A PHANTOM, OR THE KING OF THULE." — This is a beautifully colored film telling the touching story of that melancholy ruler whose sorrow at the death of his sweetheart drove him to leave his throne and follow a vision to his death. The hero of this story was King of that legendary country of Thule, which is mentioned by several of